On Thu, 25 May 2000, Michael Lucas wrote:
> I'm writing an article on Memory File System, just because I think
> it's massively cool.
>
> We had a thread some time ago on why MFS wasn't useful for certain
> applications. I searched through the mail archives, and found lots of
> things MFS wouldn't be right for, but not much of the other way around.
>
> What are some good, reasonable use for MFS nowadays?
I've used it to store lockfiles in a simple database server. There are a
variety of fast alternatives I could have used, but none of them were
nearly as simple as using filesystem operations. MFS makes the simple
implementation more than fast enough that I don't care to do the extra
work...
Later,
scott
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